heave
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At Swamp Rabbit Cafe and Grocery, the shelves heave with white strawberries, purple asparagus and other produce from 300 local farms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
At one point, Nelson appears to snatch the other driver’s sunglasses from his forehead and heave them across the parking lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Stokes had added 50 from 36 balls with Ben Duckett when he aimed a heave at Foulkes and was caught by Mitchell.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
“Day after day, I heave and haul the detritus of the most polluting civilization in human history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Something breaks in me, and I start to heave, tears running down my face.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
He guides me inside a warehouse full of vast, bubbling water tanks and heaves out a haul of the squirming, long, thin black fish.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
With each of their heaves, the rope squeaked and the branch above bounced precariously.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
Until then, the Huskies can live off the happy memories of Penix’s precision heaves sailing into receivers’ arms, over and over again.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
The map, the early morning, the letter that has traveled through the night to be delivered: A narrative heaves underneath the silence of the scene.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
Even in its stillness, a roll heaves beneath its vast surface like a giant turning over in his sleep.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
On the small vessel’s deck, a pair of traps containing skittering crustaceans had just been heaved aboard from 25 feet below the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Von Allmen, however, was a picture of celebration after his storming run, the large number of baying Swiss fans in the packed tribune wildly applauding their hero, flags waved, cowbells heaved and air horns blown.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Every Navy officer I knew heaved a huge sigh of relief.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
Once the 18 pallets were loaded, the C-130 heaved itself into the air, then circled lazily over Amman, the Jordanian capital, while the pilots waited for Israeli authorities to coordinate their entry into Gazan airspace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Clare heaved a fat branch onto the shore.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Racism has been a feature of American history since the first slave ship hove to off Jamestown in 1619.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
“The jury is still out,” said Luc Van den hove, chief executive of the Belgium-based chip research center Imec.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2016
Just as Farage was explaining the purpose of his demonstration to the assembled media, another vessel hove alongside—to wit, a white pleasure cruiser by the name of Sarpedon.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2016
The same day, Monroe’s ship hove into sight of the French coast.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2015
He gave no sign even when the first ranks of his own squadron hove into sight with their swingless marching and die first stricken gasps of alarm were hissing from his startled fellow officers.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The gym, meanwhile, is "absolutely heaving with young people" at times, says Lauren Connis, head of health and wellbeing at Oldham Active in Manchester.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
And it wasn’t lost on Rove that the spindly, excitable man narrating that story for them in a thick Hungarian accent “was once a 16-year-old picking up paving blocks and heaving them at Soviet tanks.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Or what it feels like to ride the slow heaving of the ocean, pulsing like the heartbeat of the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
But last June he was rubber-legged and dry heaving in 95-degree heat when he bowed out of the 37-mile Rachel Carson Trail Challenge outside Pittsburgh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2025
I pant, heaving in gulps of the clean air.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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